Kyle Mizokami writes in War Is Boring blog that China won the wargame because the U.S. “Littoral Combat Ships as configured were completely outclassed by their Chinese counterparts. The worst part: the Chinese didn’t even have to use missiles to defeat the Americans.”

Mizokami acknowledges the “inherent danger in reading too much out of commercial wargame simulations.” But as politicians pull on the Pentagon’s purse strings, “the dismal performance of the LCS’ anti-surface warfare module in our simulation is food for thought,” he says.